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Valor of Ignorance

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Complete with maps, schedules, and text, this book lays out how Japan can invade the United States---and it was written decades before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Spell-binding, specific, historic. If you have any concern or interest re Japan's attack on us, you will certainly be intrigued by this amazing book!

What is amazing about this book is not simply that it predicted much of what happened in World War I and II, in terms of battles, but the question of why it was so. This book was printed in many languages and was required reading for officers on both sides of these battles. So did it predict because this guy was incredibly prescient? Or because so many of the officers on both sides were reading the same play book? I also found it interesting that this book was a strong proponent of the idea that America would be crippled in protecting itself because the author believed that the then more recent flood of immigrants who came for a better life were simply here for the money and would not fight as hard as the children of earlier immigrants who came before the American revolution and who had been here through the Civil War. This book was certainly a consideration in the hands of those who decided to put Japanese-Americans and some German-Americans in holding camps because they did not believe they would be loyal to America. This author did not trust that someone whose parents and grandparents were from another country would fight for America. I grew up in an Eastern European enclave in the U.S. and often heard people talk about World War II and would always relate how their Polish-American or Hungarian-American or Greek-American or Italian American or German American soldiers fought so bravely, and they would say this with a defiance in their voice I did not understand. Reading this book made me understand that until the experience of these world wars, it was popular to believe that they would not.

The Kindle format doesn't work for this book. Reading it is subject to line breaks. One life, half, another full line, half. It doesn't flow at all. Book looks like a bad typescript. Have never had this problem with Amazon kindle or mobi files.